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Mercator projection

The Mercator projection (/mərˈkeɪtər/) is a conformal cylindrical map projection first presented by Flemish geographer and mapmaker Gerardus Mercator in 1569. In the 18th century, it became the standard map projection for navigation due to its property of representing rhumb lines as straight lines. When applied to world maps, the Mercator projection…

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Mercator projection

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related to Bibliography · 40
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related to Criticism · 18
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related to Properties · 16
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related to Web Mercator · 15
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related to Oblique Mercator · 12
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related to history · 11
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related to External links · 10
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related to Marine navigation · 9
Mercator projection → As, Earth, Even, For, Mercator, Sailing, Such, The Mercator, This
related to Scale factor · 6
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related to Transverse Mercator · 6
Mercator projection → Earth's, In, Mercator, The, This, Universal Transverse Mercator

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Mercator projectionis aunique projection which balances this East0.90text
Greenlandinstance oflandmasses0.80text
Antarctica appear far larger than they actually are relative to landmasses near the equatorinstance oflandmasses0.80text
Gall's work from 1855instance ofclaiming it to be his own original work without referencing prior work by cartographers0.80text
Mercator projectionrelated to BibliographyMaling0.60section
Mercator projectionrelated to BibliographyDerek Hylton0.60section
Mercator projectionrelated to BibliographyCoordinate Systems0.60section
Mercator projectionrelated to BibliographyMap Projections0.60section
Mercator projectionrelated to BibliographyPergamon Press0.60section
Mercator projectionrelated to BibliographyISBN0.60section
Mercator projectionrelated to BibliographyMonmonier0.60section
Mercator projectionrelated to BibliographyMark0.60section

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